Founding Software Engineer

Franchise Foundry

📍 toronto, on, Canada

Full-time Other-General Posted June 16, 2026

Job Description

Location:

Toronto, ON or Waterloo, ON Type:

Full-time / will consider contract to start Comp:

Competitive salary + meaningful equity TL;DR

We're building

Franchise Foundry — the Shopify for Franchising

— an orchestrated engine of specialized AI agents that help successful local businesses try to become the next McDonald's. We're hiring an early-career software engineer to be employee-low-single-digits and ship code that touches everything from Voice AI SDRs to auto-generated 300-page legal documents. Why this is the job to take

We're attacking a market where only

300 new franchise systems get created per year

despite

6 million small businesses

waiting in the wings — the bottleneck is human knowledge work, and AI just blew it up. Every

100,000 locations we enable generates $1B in revenue for Foundry , and we only need a few thousand franchisor clients to get massive. The endgame i...